This is a Symbolic Sign

It snuck in through the back door

As it had done

So many times before

Silenced once, for 30 days

They put me under

In a anti-psychotic meds induced daze

The same day I wrote my rallying call

30 days it took them for me to not fall

Psychiatrist tricks

“OH I HAVE A HEADACHE”

He complained to me

  1. ⁠Unprofessional
  2. ⁠He hoped I’d say “want me to suck your dick”

Then they’d be able to say

“What a shame she’d still not well”

“Here’s another form 3 welcome to hell”

Blare the trumpets

Sounds the alarms

We have arrived again

With more strength in our arms

We will not fall

This is our rallying call

And the sirens bright flare

Stars & Stripes forever

You can take the girl off the hanger

But you can’t take the hanger

Out of the girl

Oh wait

Knitting needles

Is what I meant to say

The girl

Is my mom

And now I’m here

To finish what she started.

So very very

Long ago